Moral Education Quotes

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations.

Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.